1:25pm Monday 20th October 2008
By James Kershaw
THE fight to save a Wickford beauty spot has been lost.
About 200 homes will be built on Barn Hall fields after Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State, overturned Basildon Council’s decision to protect the area.
Campaigners fear the move will open the floodgates for developers Gleeson Homes to build up to 1,000 homes on the 100-acre site.
Jacqueline Boynes, of the Wickford North Green Action Group, said: “Homes could now pop up all over this beautiful area. I am shocked.”
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